As we continue to ponder what it means to "abide", "bear fruit" and "bring glory to God"--I want to do something very practical this week, and something that I trust will be very beneficial to you. So two things for you to ponder:
1) To abide requires faith, or stated another way, abiding is really part of the walk of faith of the Lord's righteous-ones (Hab 2:4). So what is faith, how do we develop it or stimulate it? What kinds of things hinder it?
2) And here is an even more challenging question--how do you think we should monitor ourselves with respect to abiding--bearing fruit? By this I mean, how do we keep an eye on ourselves to make sure we really are abiding. Furthermore, what should we do if we determine we have areas in which we have failed?
See you on Wednesday,
Kevin
